A world timezone shapefile is downloaded from https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder/releases
and converted to a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame with additional columns of data. The resulting file will be created
in the spatial data directory which is set with setSpatialDataDir()
.
convertOSMTimezones(dsnPath = NULL, nameOnly = FALSE)
optional directory where the timezones.shapefile.zip file is found (in case web access isn't working)
logical specifying whether to only return the name without creating the file
Name of the dataset being created.
https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder/releases
setSpatialDataDir
convertWikipediaTimezoneTable